Sunday, June 16, 2024 – Tuesday, June 18, 2024

“The BRAIN Initiative® Conference, previously known as the BRAIN Initiative Meeting, convenes BRAIN Initiative awardees, staff, and leadership from the contributing federal agencies: National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), and U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). Additional participants include representatives and investigators from participating non-federal organizations, media, the public, and Congress members. This open hybrid meeting aims to continue building the BRAIN community, provide a forum for discussing exciting scientific developments and potential new directions, and identify areas for collaboration and research coordination.” To learn more, click on this link.

Our very own Dr. Xu will be presenting on June 18th, 2024 in symposia 5 titled, “Building on BICCN: Alzheimer’s Disease Multimodal Atlasing Projects (AD-MAPs) from 1:45 – 3:15pm eastern time.

We recently attended the 2024 BICAN UM1 Retreat. The day was filled with great talks ranging from brain donation to brain research to data storage efforts and challenges. The retreat was hosted at the Salk Institute in San Diego, CA. Thank you to the Salk Institute for organizing such a great meeting.